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slug: 18-asset-pipeline-tools
role: index
date: 2026-04-21
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> **📅 Research snapshot as of 2026-04-21.** Provider pricing, free-tier availability, and model capabilities drift every quarter. The router reads `data/routing-table.json` and `data/model-registry.json` at runtime — treat those as source of truth. If this document disagrees with the registry, the registry wins.

# Category 18 — Asset Pipeline Tools

`appicon.co`-killer stack: sharp + resvg + `@capacitor/assets` + icon-gen + BullMQ + R2. Content-addressed storage; prompt-hash cache is the economic lever.

## Angles

| File | Topic |
|---|---|
| [`18a-appicon-co-teardown-and-oss-replacement.md`](./18a-appicon-co-teardown-and-oss-replacement.md) | Teardown & Replace of www.appicon.co — what it does, the ZIP it returns, its license, and a fully open-source replacement stack |
| [`18b-framework-native-asset-generators.md`](./18b-framework-native-asset-generators.md) | Framework-Integrated Asset Generators — Capacitor, Expo, Flutter, React Native, Tauri, Electron, NativeScript, KMP |
| [`18c-splash-screen-generators.md`](./18c-splash-screen-generators.md) | Splash Screen Generators — Android 12+, iOS Launch Storyboard, PWA Startup Images, and pwa-asset-generator Deep Dive |
| [`18d-image-processing-libraries.md`](./18d-image-processing-libraries.md) | Image Processing & Optimization Libraries for an Embeddable Asset Pipeline |
| [`18e-production-pipeline-architecture.md`](./18e-production-pipeline-architecture.md) | Architectural Blueprint for a Production Asset Pipeline |

## Also in this folder

- [`SYNTHESIS.md`](./SYNTHESIS.md) — synthesized insights across angles

## Up one level

- [`../index.md`](../index.md) — master research index
- [`../SYNTHESIS.md`](../SYNTHESIS.md) — master synthesis
